Itc business strategy

The TIP, which would run from 2019-21, is funded by a US$5.28 million grant from the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) with technical assistance from the ITC, a multilateral agency based in Geneva. The project’s strategic focus include improving trade competitiveness and business environment through updating National Export Strategy (NES), supporting investments in building productive capacities as well as expanding public and private trade and investment support services to micro, small and medium enterprises. The TIP will also improve the investment promotion through the Myanmar Investment Promotion Plan (MIPP), and enable priority sectors growth through specialized support for the private sector. The current NES, which runs from 2015-19, has a list of 11 prioritized sectors, which includes rice; beans pulses and oilseeds; fisheries; forestry products; textiles and garment; rubber; tourism; information and promotion; trade facilitation and logistics; … [Read more...] about Myanmar launches trade, investment project with UK support

By David Olive Business Columnist Fri., Sept. 7, 2018 Nations do behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” -Abba Eban, Israeli statesman, June 1967. Ideally, this is how the global trade relationship looks in 2020. Two years from now, Canada remains a partner with the U.S. and Mexico in a reformed trilateral trade pact. The awkward birth of that new treaty saw moments of high drama – offers, counter-offers, threats and concessions – all rendered moot with constant changes in negotiating strategies. The new deal was under constant revision until ratified in 2019. But the final deal was good, or good enough. Article Continued Below Canada scored a victory in securing a modified trilateral deal that underpins more than $1 trillion (U.S.) in trade among the three amigos, a partnership America had threatened to scrap. The modernized deal got a new name, the Americas Freedom and Fairness Arrangement (AFFA). The … [Read more...] about The view from 2020: NAFTA is a thing of the past